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United States Vs. Nicolas Arceo

THE UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. NICOLAS ARCEO, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 4539 | 1908-10-28

D E C I S I O N


TORRES, J.:

On the 3d of February, 1897, Nicolas Arceo married Tranquilina Arcillas, the ceremony being performed at the church of Bacolor, Pampanga, in accordance with the religious rites and legal provisions then in force; and, without the said marriage having been lawfully dissolved, since his wife, Arcillas, was still living, he contracted another marriage on the 1st of May, 1901, before the parish priest and witnesses at the church of the town of Tambobong with Teodora de Guia, according to the canonical certificates marked "A" and "B," which may be seen at folios 20 and 21 of the record.

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